What are they eating up there?

 Mark Carney is creaming Mary Simon in the race for who can gobble more goodies on flights.  In 2022, Simon wasted what turned out to be a mere $93,000 on such delights as beef wellington when she took a trip to the Middle East and dragged along her Crocodile Dundee wanna-be husband (Note to Whit: lose the ridiculous hat) and 29 of her closest friends.  Carney, however, topped that excess by a country mile.  He spent $300,000 in the air alone!

Never mind that the governor general is the King's representative in Canada.  Never mind that the Commonwealth has nothing to do with the Middle East.  What the h-ll!  Simon went anyway and gorged on gourmet delights in the air alone.  (Frankly, she doesn't need to eat so much, judging by her ample girth, but I digress.)

Not to be outdone, Carney has relegated her to the bush league.  Last year, his lordship spent (rounded off) $300,000 on inflight catering and another $472,000 gourmandizing when he got where he was going.

He dropped $39,000 in Paris, $48,000 in Washington, $36,000 in London, $133,000 in Rome, $141,000 in The Hague, and $73,000 in Brussels for a grand total of:

$472,293.20!!! 

Wow, that's staggering when you consider that Canada's food banks are struggling to keep up with demand.  Frankly, it's obscene.  As I have said, Carney governs like a CEO, not a PM, with nary a thought to the poor serfs beneath him.

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A word about the 'fairer" sex.  Women are at in again running to women-only conferences.  "You never went in for that stuff, did you," one DM I reported to said.  I took it as an enormous compliment because I didn't hang around doing "women's issue/feminist/liberated" things.  I hung around the power, which in my day, usually meant men.

The latest 'Globe and Mail' woke conference.  Some women have been at this for 60 years.  I got over it decades ago.

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When I heard a female had been the shooter in Tumbler Ridge, I was shocked.  Women don't do this.  Of course, it wasn't a women, it was a male in a dress, but the CBC couldn't bring itself to say it.  How does this help?  Rhetorical.
And, by the way, what was Carney's wife doing laying flowers?  No one elected her, so please stay at home in New York.